How do judges of the Supreme Court of Maryland reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Supreme Court of Maryland / Joined 1924 / Served to 1941

Francis Neal Parke

Justice, Supreme Court of Maryland

Francis Neal Parke was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland, who joined the court in 1924. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1871–1955
Tenure: 1924–1941 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1924	Supreme Court of Maryland	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Parke authored 355 published opinions for the court (1924–1941), plus 28 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Victory Sparkler & Specialty Co. v. Francks (120 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 12 of these were attributed to Parke by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1925	Victory Sparkler & Specialty Co. v. Francks	128 A. 635	120
1928	Dickey v. Dickey	141 A. 387	104
1933	Lipsitz v. Parr	164 A. 743	77
1933	Bowman v. Williams	165 A. 182	74
1933	Simmons v. State	167 A. 60	62
1931	Lee v. State· Dissent†	157 A. 723	60
1925	Carozza v. Federal Finance & Credit Co.	131 A. 332	60
1929	Hammaker v. Schleigh	147 A. 790	54
1937	Spencer v. Franks	195 A. 306	52
1932	Callahan v. State	162 A. 856	50
1940	Winkel v. Winkel	15 A.2d 914	49
1934	Quimby v. Greenhawk	171 A. 59	49
1932	Heyward v. State· Concurrence	158 A. 897	49
1928	Meisinger v. State· Dissent	141 A. 536	49
1929	Carter v. Carter	144 A. 490	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 395 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Maryland reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Francis Neal Parke on?: Francis Neal Parke was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Maryland.

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17 years on the Supreme Court of Maryland. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).